Job Details Job Title Project Planning & Control Analyst - Team Lead Department Finance & Accounting Business Unit / Division Corporate Services Reports To Location Job Level About GP Strategies GP Strategies is a global leader in talent transformation, dedicated to empowering organizations to unlock their full potential. We help businesses enhance workforce performance and achieve strategic goals through innovative, technology-enabled learning solutions. With a proven track record of supporting over 6,000 global organizations worldwide, we combine human expertise with AI-driven insights to deliver customized strategies that upskill talent, drive technology adoption, and optimize critical processes. Our mission is to create a lasting impact by equipping organizations with the strategy, skills, and tools needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving world. Role Purpose The PPCA Team Lead is a hands-on project finance role with additional team leadership responsibilities. The individual is accountable for managing the financial performance of a portfolio of projects directly while also providing day-to-day functional leadership, guidance, and oversight to PPCA analysts. This role combines delivery and leadership: the Team Lead personally performs core PPCA activities on assigned projects (setup, forecasting, cost control, billing, and close) while ensuring consistent standards, timely outputs, and strong financial governance across the wider team. The role partners closely with Service Delivery and the wider Finance organisation (Finance Management Office, Project Finance Office, and Finance Service Centre) to enable operational success while safeguarding financial integrity, compliance, and margin outcomes. Key Accountabilities - Provide day-to-day functional leadership to PPCA analysts, including work allocation, prioritisation, and workflow coordination. - Review and quality-check key PPCA outputs prepared by the team to ensure consistency, accuracy, and adherence to PFO standards. - Act as first escalation point for complex or non-standard project finance issues; resolve or escalate appropriately. - Support onboarding, training, and coaching of PPCA team members; share best practices and institutional knowledge. - Balance personal project workload with leadership duties to ensure delivery commitments are met. - Primary point of contact for project finances, controlling activities to meet internal and customer expectations. - Responsible for maintaining relationships across client-facing functional teams and the FMO, and act as a point of liaison. - Provide administrative and procedural support to Service Delivery teams from a financial perspective regarding cost control, project budgets, and reporting. - Initiate project setup process using the Project Costing Form/App and review setup for accuracy - Review and approve Project Purchase Requisitions - Support supplier cost analysis and negotiation Project Planning Execution - Receipting of subcontractor cost in line with period of performance - Process financial adjustments - Review output of Service Delivery activity for Revenue, Cost recognition, and Billing - Initiate revenue and invoice intake and provide backup as required - Review, resolve issues and approve draft invoices before customer submission Monitoring and Control - Review and re-baseline budgets as required by company policy - Manage change orders and project modifications - Manage project resource changes - Support project governance by utilizing exception reporting and completing the appropriate actions - Provide financial analysis to support margin optimization - Manage project reconciliation and close procedure - Support audit process - Work with regional process to manage unapplied cash - Support AR and EUB reviews - Support governance of Purchase Order receipting, follow-up on aged receipts with no invoice - Support PFO-owned Account Recs. - Support ad-hoc/bespoke reporting/analysis from Service Delivery - Support client meetings as required Additional responsibilities What Success Looks Like Success means the Team Lead consistently delivers high-quality PPCA outputs on their own projects while elevating the performance of the wider team. Projects are well controlled, invoices are accurate and timely, risks are identified early, and standards are applied consistently. The Team Lead is recognised as both a reliable hands-on analyst and a trusted escalation point for Service Delivery and Finance leadership. Candidate Profile Experience & Capability - Experience acting as a senior analyst, mentor, or team lead, with responsibility for reviewing work and supporting others. - Experience in project finance, project accounting, or financial control within a service, consulting, or project based environment. - Proven ability to manage project budgets, cost tracking, forecasting, and financial reporting. - Comfortable acting as the primary financial liaison for operational or client facing teams. - Experience reviewing and approving purchase requisitions, supplier costs, and subcontractor invoices. - Strong background in supporting invoicing cycles, revenue recognition, and financial adjustments. - Familiarity with project governance processes, change control, and project close‑out procedures. - Exposure audits, AR processes, and reconciliation activities. Technical Strength - Proficient in project costing tools, financial systems, or ERP platforms (e.g., Oracle Cloud, SAP, or similar). - Strong Excel capability, including data analysis, reconciliation, and financial modelling. - Understanding revenue and cost recognition principles in a project based environment. - Ability to interpret financial data, identify variances, and provide actionable insights. - Skilled in exceptional reporting, margin analysis, and financial controls. - Comfortable working with purchase orders, receipting processes, and supplier financial documentation Leadership and Mindset Behaviours - Leads by example through strong personal delivery and technical credibility. - Demonstrates ownership, accountability, and sound judgement. - Collaborates effectively across Finance and Service Delivery teams. - Drives continuous improvement while maintaining operational discipline. - Detail driven, accurate, and committed to maintaining high financial integrity. - Confident communicator who builds strong relationships across finance and operational teams. - Calm under pressure, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and resolve issues quickly. - Analytical thinker who seeks root causes, not just symptoms, and recommends improvements. - Collaborative and service-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability. - Adaptable, curious, and open to continuous learning and process improvement. Why Join You will be part of a Finance and Accounting function evolving into a strategic growth engine, with exposure to senior leadership and enterprise-wide initiatives under the OneGP model. #LI-SS2 GP Strategies Corporation is one of the world's leading talent transformation providers. By delivering award-winning learning and development solutions, we help organizations transform through their people and achieve meaningful change. GP Strategies has delivered our innovative consulting, learning services, and talent technology solutions to over 6,000 organizations globally. From our global experience working across thousands of projects and initiatives over the past 55 years, we've learned that relationships, business, work, innovation, strategy, and transformation are all about people. And, to put it simply, GP Strategies is about our people - an extensive global network of learning experts. Additional information can be found at www.gpstrategies.com. With more than 4000 employees in over 30 countries, diversity at GP Strategies is second nature! Beyond our locations, our culture focuses on performance and revolves around respect, fairness, and working collaboratively to achieve our goals. We support our People, no matter who they are or where they are from, because we all have valuable and unique perspectives and approaches. That's how great ideas are born, which enable us to work smarter. GP Strategies is committed and proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other federally protected class.

• Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly variance and data analysis. • Development and support of Quarterly Estimate-at-Completion (EAC) development. • Establish and maintain program logs (Work Authorization, Contract Mod Log, R&Os). • Provide financial guidance to Factory Overhead Managers, IPT leads, and other finance branches. • Support the monthly forecast / close process.

• Provide research and analytical support to the Enrollment Digital Team to drive the goals of the University. • Develop and test digital ad copy for PPC campaigns for Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other ad networks. • Audit digital ad campaigns to evaluate and maximize performance. • Organize digital ad campaign structure for various ad networks. • Utilize Social Media Marketing, Paid Search Advertising, and Display Advertising to drive awareness and conversion actions. • Support the Director of Online Digital Marketing & Analytics and Senior Management with analytic projects.

Join Zepz: Breaking Down Borders, Together Our Meaningful Mission At Zepz, we're all about breaking down barriers for our customers and our teammates. Our purpose is deeply personal, we provide a lifeline and deliver opportunities to cross-border communities that need it most through cutting edge finance and tech. Zepz is the power behind WorldRemit and Sendwave, driven by the mission to celebrate the incredible impact migrants have, both at home and abroad. We're not just moving money; we're building a world that truly recognizes and supports global connections. Who You'll Be JoiningWe look for mission-driven builders who thrive in a fast-paced environment connected to a true purpose. We’re an always developing team of experts that enjoy problem solving and bring clarity to tough challenges. At Zepz, we are Relentless Learners, always seeking feedback, and Responsible Owners, treating company resources like your own. We depend on Transparent Communicators who keep the team aligned through open, honest talk. Our Core Commitments — What We Live By Our vibrant and truly diverse culture is built on three core commitments, that guide how we work and interact: - Integrity: We always do the right thing. It’s simple, but it’s the foundation of everything we build for our customers and each other. - Outcomes: We work for our customers. Their success and prosperity are the results we focus on delivering. - Velocity: We are fast! We maintain high energy levels and make smart decisions quickly, keeping us nimble and ahead of the curve. Perks of Joining Our Team We believe in empowering colleagues because we genuinely trust our team. Our culture is founded on this high trust, which naturally encourages the high ownership that drives us to meet our shared high expectations and deliver high performanceOur remote-first culture means you have the flexibility to work in your employing country wherever you feel the most focused and productive. This freedom comes with wonderful tailored, location-specific perks designed to support your whole life, not just your work. Think unlimited annual leave , great healthcare benefits, and employee discounts. We want you to thrive and focus entirely on making your biggest impact! In turn, we expect you to bring high ownership and commitment to your work. This is a place where we value trust and high performance, and we'll provide the environment and support needed for you to excelAbout the role and team This is a cross-functional team made up of data analysts, accountants, and operations managers. Its scope reaches beyond performing traditional financial reconciliations to cover upstream partner data procurement and analysis, downstream investigations of mismatched records, and cross-org engagement to fix root causes of reconciliation breaks. This team’s core mission is to ensure that we accurately represent money owed to or from partners in our financial statements. It is the ultimate backstop to make sure Zepz is doing right by every user in paying out their funds and getting back money we’re owed to further invest in our business. It prevents losses by quickly surfacing errors in our payments processes before they compound and works cross-functionally and with external partners to ensure timely investigation and resolution of problems. What you bring to the table Zepz is looking for a data-savvy, outcomes-oriented Investigations & Disputes Analyst to join our new end-to-end Financial Reconciliation Team. In this role, you will leverage your advanced data skills to uncover, understand, and resolve complex and high-profile business challenges. In direct collaboration with other Zepz teams and our external partner network, you will play a crucial part in achieving both positive financial results for Zepz and an improved payments experience for our users. What you will focus on - Independent data analysis: Writing SQL queries and creating dashboards to support in identifying, strategically investigating, and easily tracking losses - Investigation and resolution: Running investigations into all mismatched transactions internally and / or externally with our partners and resolving transactions to their accurate statuses - Loss prevention: Minimizing business and user losses by identifying and resolving the root causes creating them - Loss disputes: Disputing losses with external partners based on data-driven analysis - Early loss detection: Working with product and engineering teams to develop mechanisms to detect and investigate potential losses faster Nice to have/ Bonus Points if you have - Experience with AutoRek - Experience investigating and disputing reconciliation issues - Advanced Mode + DataBricks experience - Experience working at a payments or fintech company - Experience working in a remote, fast-paced, nimble environment (e.g., startup, remote company) - Fluent in Spanish and / or French If you want to join us in our journey to help break barriers in financial access and improve lives globally, there's no better place or time to join. Our global team of 800+ people is spread across six continents. We aspire to hire the best mix of people from former Olympians to YouTube influencers and we speak over twenty languages. This incredible diversity isn't a bonus; it's the engine that lets us serve the world. Ready to Apply? Let’s Go.